mongo
noun
mongo
1 American
[mong-goh]
/ ˈmɒŋ goʊ /
Or
mongoe
noun
mongos
plural
mongo
2
American
[mong-goh]
/ ˈmɒŋ goʊ /
noun
mongo,
plural
mongos
plural
Mongo
3
American
[mong-goh]
/ ˈmɒŋ goʊ /
noun
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a member of any of various agricultural peoples of the central Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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the Bantu language of the Mongo peoples.
mongo
1
British
/ ˈmɒŋɡəʊ /
noun
möngö
2
British
/ ˈmɒŋɡəʊ /
noun
Usage
What else does mongo mean? Mongo can be a slang term for "huge" or "extremely."In another, unrelated sense, mongo or mong can be a slur for a "stupid" person. Mongo is also used in New York to describe items picked from the trash.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of mongo
First recorded in 1935–40; from modern Mongolian möngö, from mönggün “silver, money”
Example Sentences
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“Remember Charles Reich’s mongo bestseller, ‘The Greening of America’?” writer Amity Shlaes wrote in the Wall Street Journal in 1999, nearly three decades after the book was published.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2019
I quote, "Rules are meant to be broken, just don't let us catch you pushing mongo."
From Time Magazine Archive
In your magazine, you always blab on about love and community in the skateboarding world, but you constantly trash people who push mongo.
From Time Magazine Archive
In both these issues you rip on people who push mongo.
From Time Magazine Archive
Nkoko, mongo, zulu—river, mountain, sky—everything must be called out from the void by the word we use to claim it.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
On Zoom, Sanchez holds up Mongo, a fluffy gray-and-white cat, to meet Vlada.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2023
“The Russians are pushing everywhere,” said one soldier fighting for Ukraine and stationed in Bakhmut, who asked to be identified by his military call sign, Mongo.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2023
The movie saw warring factions of the planet Mongo unite against the oppression of Ming the Merciless.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2022
Kacho, Kilos and Mongo Gama grew up performing in cemeteries.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
I would open the gate, and Mongo, who had heard his name, would come running out to his mother.
From "Facing the Lion" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton and Herman Viola
They have likewise some pulse, as mongos, patani, kidney-beans, and millet.
From An Historical View of the Philippine Islands, Vol I (of 2) Exhibiting their discovery, population, language, government, manners, customs, productions and commerce. by Zuniga, Martinez de
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